Periphrases of terms relating to unanimated nature in the poetry of Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

The article presents functional and semantic characteristics of 38 periphrases of terms relating to unanimated nature excerpted from the poetry of Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska. Fifteen discussions relate to earth and its shape, two structures are synonyms of the word nature, and twenty-one constructions replace one-word aquatic names. The analysis of intertextual references showed that periphrases refer to folk, literary or cultural patterns. Semantically they relate to Christian, e.g. God’s world ‘earth’; mythological zephyr’s folds ‘waves’ and classical tradition (a glass broken into thousands of sparks ‘lake’)